Italy

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OWASP Italy

Welcome to the Italy chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Matteo MeucciClick here to join the local chapter mailing list.

Participation

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Activities

(May 10): OWASP Training at London: last 28th May in London, OWASP leaders deliver a course focused on the main OWASP Projects. This course aims to change that by providing a selection of mature and enterprise ready projects together with practical examples of how to use them.

(21 Jun 06) Infosecurity 2006: the event is organized and managed by the CLUSIT.

Alberto Revelli and Matteo Meucci will partecipate as speakers at the seminar: "Web Application Security: guidelines and security auditing for web applications". More info here

(1 Jun 06) "Quaderno CLUSIT"

CLUSIT has published a book entitled: "La verifica della sicurezza di applicazioni Web-based e il progetto OWASP". Several OWASP-Italy members (R.Chiesa, L.De Santis, M.Graziani, L.Legato, M.Meucci, A.Revelli) have contributed to the writing. The document is now reserved to CLUSIT members, but will be made public in about 3 months.

Thanks to Jim Weiler, Matteo Meucci has presented "Anatomy of two web attacks" at the OWASP-Boston meeting. More info here

(18 Nov 05) IDC - European Banking Forum

Thanks to Raoul Chiesa (Director of Communication OWASP-Italy), we will have a great speech at the IDC European IT Banking Forum 2005. Agenda: - New standards for the ICT security auditing in the italian banking scenario: OSSTMM and OWASP. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy and Matteo Meucci, OWASP-Italy Chair - Workshop: unusual form of attacks and banking system violation: live experience. Raoul Chiesa, Director of Communications, ISECOM/OWASP-Italy

(Apr 05) We have written an article describing the OWASP projects, Web Application Security and the next challenges. ICT Security.(the italian magazine about Information Security) has published the article on the number 33 - April 2005.

The presentation of the seminar we have done in ISACA Rome (31th March 2005) is now available here.

(Apr 05) We have published a presentation describing a detailed case study of a web application vulnerabilty (MMS Spoofing).

(Mar 05) Thanks to Matteo Paolelli we have translated the "OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilties in Web Application Security" in italian language. You can download it here.

January 25th, 2007 - Isaca Rome

October 7th, 2006 - SMAU 2006

- "The quest for secure code: code review and fundamental of secure coding." Matteo Meucci will present an introduction to the new OWASP Projects and OWASP-Italy activities. Paolo Perego (sp0nge) will speak about safe coding and the importance of code periodic review as natural software life cycle. Paolo will give a vision on code review and its phases http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/5772

- "Advanced SQL Injection." Antonio Parata (S4tan) will explain SQL Injection, and how SQL Inference works on PHP/MySql platform. He will present an open source tool to support the testing. Alberto Revelli (icesurfer) will focus on Microsoft SQL Server: he will perform a live demo of sqlninja (http://sqlninja.sf.net), explaining how to obtain a pseudo-shell over SQL, how to escalate privileges, and how to play with the exotic equation: "SQL Injection + debug.exe + DNS = DOS prompt" ! http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/5774

September 29th, 2006 - OpenExp 2006

Abstract: Antonio will introduce some basic concepts about software security. It will be shown how SQL Inference works on PHP/MySql platform and presented an open source tool to support the testing. Finally will be listed some advises to avoid common bugs. http://www.openexp.it/

OWASP-Italy will have a stand from September 29th to October 1st.

June 21th, 2006 - InfoSecurity 2006

Alberto Revelli and Matteo Meucci will partecipate as speakers at the seminar: "Web Application Security: guidelines and security auditing for web applications". The event is organized and managed by the CLUSIT.

Aug, 2006 - Article on Banca Finanza magazine

Banca Finanza, the italian magazine about finance and banking, has interviewed Raoul Chiesa talking about the new risks for the on-line banking security. Raoul speaks about OWASP and web application security Media:042006BF.pdf

June, 2006 - Quaderno CLUSIT

CLUSIT has published a book entitled: "La verifica della sicurezza di applicazioni Web-based e il progetto OWASP". Several OWASP-Italy members (R.Chiesa, L.De Santis, M.Graziani, L.Legato, M.Meucci, A.Revelli) have contributed to the writing. The document is now reserved to CLUSIT members, but it will be public in about 3 months.

April, 2005 - Published an article on ICT Security magazine

We have written an article describing the OWASP projects, Web Application Security and the next challenges. ICT Security.(the italian magazine about Information Security) has published the article on the number 33 - April 2005.

March, 2005 - OWASP Top-10 in Italian

Thanks to Matteo Paolelli we have translated the "OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilties in Web Application Security" in italian language. You can download it here.

Tools & Research

Nov, 2007 - sqlmap v0.5

Bernardo Damele and Daniele Bellucci have released the fifth versions of the tool sqlmap. sqlmap is an automatic SQL injection tool entirely developed in Python. It is capable to perform an extensive database management system back-end fingerprint, retrieve remote DBMS databases, usernames, tables, columns, enumerate entire DBMS, read system files and much more taking advantage of web application programming security flaws that lead to SQL injection vulnerabilities.